Clothes hanger



J. H- MULLEN CLOTHES HANGER June 7, 1949.

Filed Oct. 24, 1946 Patented June 7, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- CLOTHES HANGER Josephine H. Mullen, Dayton, Ohio Application-October 24, 1946, Serial No. 705,473

Claims. 1

This invention pertains to. garment hangers,.

and more particularly to a. form. retaining coat.

or dress support maintaining the garment in .dis-- tended condition.

In the present disclosure there-.iscontemplated: a cage like frame of generally prismoidal shape. which. is extensible. and .contractibleto agree with garments. of. different sizes, and adaptable for support of multiple garmentsand other. articles.

The object of the invention is to provide. an improved garment hanger construction, which is more convenient in use, having a wide field. of application, of strong: andsturdy construction and unlikely to get out of repair.

A further objector theinvention is to provide a, garment. hanger structure, having means for supporting furs and other small articles which are not usually suspended from hangers.

A further-object of the invention is to provide convenient depository for moth and other insect repellant or perfumed material.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment support having the advantageous structural features and the inherent meritorious characteristics and mode of use herein mentioned or their equivalents.

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention intended to be protected by Letters Patent consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of operation, as hereinafter described or illustrated in the accompanying drawings, or their equivalents.

In the drawing wherein is illustrated the preferred, but obviously not necessarily the only form of embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an assembled garment hanger embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view, partly broken away of the hanger including a shelf like support on which furs or'small articles may be laid, and within which moth repellant or perfumed materials may be deposited.

Fig, 4 is a similar fragmentary perspective view showing plural garments suspended thereon in separated relation.

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the assembled hanger.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of one of the hanger bars.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the

1 and with each other.

hanger forming. the subject matter hereof comprises a substantially prismoidal cage like frame, includinga medial main rod or bar I, transversely divided into two relatively adjustable sections, and bifurcated at its opposite ends. The furcations= 2-2' of the rod l are downwardly inclined in:- divergent relation. The inclined divergent portions 2--2 at opposite ends of the rod l are interconnected ina horizontal plane below the main rod or bar I by a pair of parallel spaced rods or bars 33. Joined to the extremities of the inclined end members 2 in a horizontal plane below that of the-rods 3, are relatively short or. stub bars. or rods 4-5 parallel with the bars or rods 3--3- The arms 4 of each pair are axially aligned, but terminatein spaced relation with the mating arms. The main or medial bar I is formed with a medial tubular enlarges ment Swithin which-theextended-ends of the rod: 1' are telescopically adjustable. Likewise the rods 3-3 are medially divided and telescopically interconnected, whereby the hanger frame as. a whole is extensible and contractible to fit garments of different sizes. The medial tubular telescopicsection 5 is providedwith an upstandingswiveled suspension hook 6. The laterally divergent sides of the hanger frame maintainsacoat or dress thereon distended, whereby it will longer retain its proper shape. While a coat or dress is suspended upon the hanger frame and held in distended condition, other garments such as skirts or trousers may be suspended from the parallel bars or rods 3-3 as shown at l in Fig. 4. The more widely spaced arms 44 maintain the dependent portions of the garments suspended from the rods 3 separated as shown in Fig. 4. The short arms of the frame serve to support a transversely interconnecting fabric shelf like member 8 upon which furs, gloves or other smaller articles may be laid. The short arms 4 project within hems 8a. of the fabric shelf 8. Such fabric support 8 is provided with a pocket 9 in which insect repellant material or perfumed substance may be conveniently deposited. The respective telescopically adjustable sections of the rods or bars I, 3 and 4 may be of tubular form of diameters to easily slide one portion within the other, but for convenience and economy of manufacture they may be of inverted channel shape, and for example transversely fluted as shown in cross section in Fig. 6. Such channel type construction, enables the entire hanger frame to be formed as a, pair of unitary telescopically engaging sections stamped from sheet metal or pressed from fiher board. Omitting the telescopically adjustable 3 feature the entire hanger frame may comprise a one piece stamping.

An additional suspension hook l may be attached within the cage like structure of the under side of the tubular coupling 5, upon which a supplemental garment hanger may be supported without interference with garments directly engaged with the primary structure.

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and arrangement of parts without departing from .the principle involved or sacrificing any of its advantages.

While in order to comply with the statute the invention has been described in language more or less specific as to structural features, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise the preferred form of several modes of putting the invention into effect, and the invention is therefore claimed in any of its forms or modification within the legitimate and valid scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A garment hanger, comprising an adjustable cage like structure, including a medial main bar divided into two reversely disposed relatively adjustable terminal sections, a tubular intermediate coupling within which the terminal sections are telescopically adjustable, downwardly divergently inclined bifurcated terminals on the adjustable sections of the medial main bar, additional telescopically adjustable bars interconnecting the furcations of the opposite terminals of the medial main bar in spaced relation therewith and with each other, inwardly directed relatively short stub bars projecting from the furcations in parallel relatively spaced relation with the aforementioned bars and with each other and terminating in separated aligned relation with those attached to the furcations of the opposite end of the structure.

2. An expansible and contractible garment hanger comprising a cage like structure including a plurality of longitudinally disposed terminally interconnected parallel spaced bars arranged in relatively divergent planes and transversely divided into telescopically adjustable sections.

3. A garment hanger including a medial longitudinal rod terminally bifurcated, two series of substantially parallel spaced rods arranged in divergent planes to which the bifurcated rod is common, the furcations at the ends of said common rod interconnecting the parallel spaced rods of each of the series with said common rod.

4. A garment hanger including two divergent series of parallel spaced hanger rods, terminal tie members interconnecting the rods of the respective series into a cage like structure of substantially prismoidal form, base members therefor of less length than the structure joined to said terminal tie member, each terminating in spaced aligned relation with opposing base members.

5. A garment hanger comprising two divergent series of terminally interconnected parallel spaced hanger rods comprising a cage like structure of prismoidal form including two relatively short base rods of each series terminating in aligned spaced relation with each other, and a transversely arranged supporting shelf supported upon the short aligned base rods of the respective series.

JOSEPHINE H. MULLEN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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